Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Brothers John & Gardner Cowles Jr., publishers of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, started Look ten months ago they had no idea whether they would sell 60,000 or 600,000 copies. First issue of the 10? monthly gravure picture magazine was a 705,000 sellout, and the present 1,700,000 circulation came in generous leaps & bounds as the monthly became a fortnightly. But Look did not decide to accept advertising until three months ago when the Brothers Cowles took Ned Doyle, a wiry, 34-year-old Hibernian, from the eastern advertising managership of Cosmopolitan. Mr. Doyle was given...
Green and his popular light opera people are currently playing to sellout Boston houses. Last week they made Crimson news when challenged to a rugby match by the local fifteen...
...more Broadway's Man-of-the-Year when he turned out two more smashing box-office successes: Stage Door (with Edna Ferber) and You Can't Take It With You (with Moss Hart). The latter is Kaufman's 27th Broadway show. It is also his biggest sellout, since seats are on sale almost five months in advance, a Broadway record. Last week, however, in Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora's courtroom, an inside story of show business was unfolded, revealing that even Playwright Kaufman occasionally turns out a flop. For laymen the suit of Polisuk...
...Governor Landon was right. The American farmer has been sold out. But the Governor is mistaken as to who did the selling and when it occurred. The 'sellout' took place during the Hoover Administration, and it was the Smoot-Hawleyites who did the work...
...early sellout of tickets is expected for this film...